Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
About the Book Series
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics was established in 2001 and has since provided a key port of call for leading research in the field. As well as the core discipline of environmental economics, the remit of the series extends to natural resources, ecological economics, environmental studies and environmental science, with issues explored including energy, permit trading, valuation, taxation and climate change. The series is edited by Nick Hanley of the University of St Andrews.
Is the Environment a Luxury?: An Inquiry into the relationship between environment and income
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini
September 30, 2020
The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income. Are the preferences of the poor towards a cleaner environment really different from those of the rich? Environmental economists have traditionally...
Advances in Fisheries Bioeconomics: Theory and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Carlos Seijo, Jon G. Sutinen
August 14, 2020
Efforts to effectively conserve and manage marine resources are facing increasing complexity of environmental and governance challenges. To address some of these challenges, this book presents advancements in fisheries bioeconomics research that provides significant ideas for addressing emerging ...
National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Economies: Innovation Policies for Decarbonizing and Unlocking
1st Edition
Edited
By Kurt Hübner
June 30, 2020
The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans. At the same time, policy responses are hesitant, rather lukewarm and differ substantially between nation-states. The question is, what drives and what blocks radical action? ...
Redesigning Petroleum Taxation: Aligning Government and Investors in the UK
1st Edition
By Emre Üşenmez
June 30, 2020
Since its inception some 40 years ago, petroleum-specific taxation in the UK has been subject to numerous modifications. Often these modifications were brought into place not only to sufficiently incentivise the investors but also to capture a fair share for the government. However, it is evident ...
The Economics of Renewable Energy in the Gulf
1st Edition
Edited
By Hisham M. Akhonbay
June 30, 2020
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) has been at the epicenter of global energy markets because of its substantial endowment of hydrocarbons. Yet countries in the region have also stated their intent to be global leaders in renewable energy. This collection explores the ...
The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance: Evidence from Sweden
1st Edition
By Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Tommy Lundgren, Per-Olov Marklund, Wenchao Zhou
June 30, 2020
Sweden has a long history of ambitious environmental, energy and climate policy. Due to the large amount of data available it is possible to perform statistically sound analysis and assess long term changes in productivity, efficiency, and technological development. The data at hand together with ...
Economics of International Environmental Agreements: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Özgür Kayalıca, Selim Çağatay, Hakan Mıhçı
December 12, 2019
International environmental agreements provide a basis for countries to address ecological problems on a global scale. However, countries are heterogeneous with respect to their economic structures and to the problems relating to the environment that they encounter. Therefore, economic ...
Environmental and Economic Impacts of Decarbonization: Input-Output Studies on the Consequences of the 2015 Paris Agreements
1st Edition
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By Óscar Dejuán, Manfred Lenzen, Maria Ángeles Cadarso
December 12, 2019
On December 12th, 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal and legally binding climate deal. They agreed to decarbonize the economy in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2ºC ...
Economic Diversification Policies in Natural Resource Rich Economies
1st Edition
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By Sami Mahroum, Yasser Al-Saleh
August 14, 2018
Economic diversification remains at the top of the agenda for hundreds of regions around the world. From the single commodity economies of African countries and the Caribbean, to the many single industry regions of Europe and North America, as well as the oil and gas rich but volatile hydrocarbon ...
The Economics of Biofuels: The impact of EU bioenergy policy on agricultural markets and land grabbing in Africa
1st Edition
By Stefania Bracco
June 28, 2018
Biofuels are a renewable source of energy used mainly for transportation. They link together food, energy and natural resources sectors, and involve ecological, social and inequality issues. They are an emblematic example of the interactions between economic, environmental, social and political ...
The Economic Theory of Community Forestry
1st Edition
By David Robinson
April 27, 2018
Community forestry is an expanding model of forest management around the world. Over a quarter of forests in developing countries are now owned by or assigned to communities and there is a growing community forestry movement in developed countries such as Canada and the USA. There is, however, no ...
Permit Trading in Different Applications
1st Edition
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By Bernd Hansjürgens, Ralf Antes, Marianne Strunz
December 08, 2016
Permit trading is an environmental policy instrument that has received increasing levels of attention over recent years. Coming from the field of air quality management, with the European CO2 emissions trading system being the most prominent example, it enters new fields of application, such as ...